Only 10 people are known to have survived the crash of a Kenya Airways jetliner off Abidjan on Sunday night, a fire brigade source told IRIN on Monday.
Flight KQ431 was on its way to Lagos, with 169 passengers and 10 crew members, Pierre Gonh, air safety investigator for the Agence nationale de l’aviation civile (ANAC), told IRIN on Monday. The A-310 airbus took off from Houphouet Boigny International Airport at 21.09 GMT and crashed a minute later, Gonh said.
As of mid-afternoon on Monday 10 survivors had been accounted for, according to Jean-Baptiste Agnimel, head of the Groupement des Sapeurs Pompiers Militaires (GSPM) involved in the rescue and recovery operation. Nine of the 10 survivors are men: one Malagasy, four Nigerians, one Gambian, one Frenchman and two whose nationality was still unknown. There was one woman, a Rwandan.
This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions
Share this article
